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join:2004-04-24
Floral Park, NY | spoon full of rate increases A spoon full of rate increases helps the fcc medicine go down...doesn't it? | |
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join:2006-02-27
Benton, AR | Re: spoon full of rate increases darn it tmc8080 you owe me dry cleaning money because the coffee just spewed out my mouth on that one. I love wit in the morning  thanks | |
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TScheisskopf
World News Trust
join:2005-02-13
Belvidere, NJ | This just in:
Comcast has just empaneled some of the leading practitioners in the little known field of Traumatic Proctology to map out their next round of rate increases. | |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Re: spoon full of rate increases Hasn't Comcast been showing higher profits every quarter ? | |
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ib50MbSoon
Formerly TwoKDialup
Premium
join:2002-06-07
Coloma, MI
| FWIW... Cable companies have a point!
While Archaic Telephone & Telegraph was busy making excuses about why they can't deliver DSL, Comcast deployed fiber right into my rural-backwater neighborhood.
The FCC should get the hell out of the way of the cable companies that are *actually* deploying broadband.
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RIRWIN1983
join:2005-08-30
Columbus, OH | Re: FWIW... I prefer this:
AT&T Archaic Telephone & T-1's, all at 1987 Prices! Reach out and call someone........if you can get through.
-AT&T | |
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batageek
Slave To The Duopoly
Premium
join:2003-01-25
Batavia, IL | Re: FWIW... Anticompetitive Tactics & Tricks
or for those partial to the Deathstar linkage:
Anakin's Twists & Turns
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
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| Twice as much. Cable's 30% cap is now twice as much! Just like Comcrap's 6Mb Cable is TWICE AS FAST AS DSL! Im still trying to figure out how 6Mb on cable is twice as fast as 6Mb on DSL. Some don't understand that 6Mb is 6Mb. It's like which would you rather be crushed by. A ton of bricks or a ton of feathers. A ton is a ton.
In really really really really small print | |
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join:2005-08-30
Columbus, OH | Re: Twice as much. but is that 6meg shared with 3 outher people off that node? or pairbonded to get 6megs | |
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join:2005-09-28
00000 | Re: Twice as much. Your missing the point 6=6. | |
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join:2005-08-30
Columbus, OH | Re: Twice as much. no i understand the point, i was making light of how maybe the broadband providers look at it, plus it was a joke too! | |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| Re: Twice as much. said by Phattieg  :said by battleop :Your missing the point 6=6. And you're new to the term "powerboost". My "6 Meg" connection averages 9, consistently, whereas DSL doesn't do that, or even offer it. Yeah, but only 9mbps for the first five megabytes then you drop back to six.
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ib50MbSoon
Formerly TwoKDialup
Premium
join:2002-06-07
Coloma, MI
| said by battleop :... Im still trying to figure out how 6Mb on cable is twice as fast as 6Mb on DSL. Starband has a slogan that goes something like "If you can see the southern sky, you can get Starband".
The phone companies need a similar slogan like "If you can see our DSLAM, you can get 6Mb DSL".
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RIRWIN1983
join:2005-08-30
Columbus, OH | Re: Twice as much. but what about all hose property owners that make the phone company put up bushes to hide those boxes because they look ugly? | |
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join:2001-12-31
Wilkes Barre, PA
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| said by ib50MbSoon :said by battleop :The phone companies need a similar slogan like "If you can see our DSLAM, you can get 6Mb DSL". HA! That's classic. | |
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cdru
Go Colts
Premium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
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| Comcast is running ads in my market advertising how much faster their service is as compared to our local telco's DSL. The funny part of the ad is that our local telco isn't activelly selling DSL anymore. They are actively selling FiOS that right now has nearly 2x the highest speed that Comcast offers. I guess they forgot to mention that in the ad.
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My views are my own.
Premium
join:2005-05-20
| Re: Twice as much. said by cdru :I guess they forgot to mention that in the ad. I guess you forgot to mention that those ads cross boundary lines.. and I guess you forgot to mention that I'm sure the entire are is not Fios served.
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cdru
Go Colts
Premium,MVM
join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN
·Verizon FIOS
| Re: Twice as much. said by fiberguy :said by cdru :I guess they forgot to mention that in the ad. I guess you forgot to mention that those ads cross boundary lines.. and I guess you forgot to mention that I'm sure the entire are is not Fios served. Those ads would primarily targeted to Allen country. AFAIK, all COs except one that are DSL equiped also have been upgraded for FiOS. By far the target audience in the urban and suburban markets all have access to FiOS. But what you say is true for the more rural or border areas that are not serviced by FiOS but by Comcast.
The point was that Comcast specifically targeted the telcos slower offering even though something faster and better was available. A more extreme example would be if Comcast said it was 100x faster the Verizon's 56k dialup. While yes it's true, it's also not a real fair comparison for a vast majority of customers who can get quite a bit more then just dialup.
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join:2001-10-02
Columbus, OH
 ·AT&T Midwest
| said by battleop :Cable's 30% cap is now twice as much! Just like Comcrap's 6Mb Cable is TWICE AS FAST AS DSL! Im still trying to figure out how 6Mb on cable is twice as fast as 6Mb on DSL. Some don't understand that 6Mb is 6Mb. It's like which would you rather be crushed by. A ton of bricks or a ton of feathers. A ton is a ton. In really really really really small print 6Mb cable is faster than 6Mb AT&T DSL provided it is working correctly and the node is not oversold (but nowhere near twice as fast). DSL has overhead for the ATM and PPPoE layers from which cable does not suffer, so with DSL you generally get throughput at about 85% of the sync rate. (Some DSL providers oversync so your throughput is actually at the advertised speed, but not AT&T). Still, in my area 5/512 RoadRunner is $45 with cable TV services, and 6/768 (~ 5/650) AT&T DSL is only $35. In my neighborhood, both are stable. So for $10 less per month, AT&T delivers about the same downstream and a bit more upstream. | |
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Running Free
Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
·North State Commun..
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| said by battleop :Cable's 30% cap is now twice as much! Just like Comcrap's 6Mb Cable is TWICE AS FAST AS DSL! Im still trying to figure out how 6Mb on cable is twice as fast as 6Mb on DSL. Some don't understand that 6Mb is 6Mb. It's like which would you rather be crushed by. A ton of bricks or a ton of feathers. A ton is a ton. In really really really really small print They are comparing their standard service to the DSL standard service, which is probably 3Mbps. Read the fine print.
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RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY
| said by battleop :It's like which would you rather be crushed by. A ton of bricks or a ton of feathers. A ton is a ton. On the other hand a Ton (2000 Pounds) of Gold is much lighter than either a Ton of Bricks or Feathers. This is due to the use of an ounce (Troy oz.) that while it is slightly larger (approximately 10 percent) than the standard Avoirdupois ounce used for normal weighing has only 12 [not 16] Troy oz. to the Troy lb. thus making the Avoirdupois/Standard lb. heavier than the Troy lb. | |
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Rob A
Jets 19 - Steelers 16
Premium
join:2005-01-17
Pompton Plains, NJ | LOL A royal pain the in coax, lol that's funny. | |
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